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Endossed vs Endorsed - What's the difference?

endossed | endorsed |

As verbs the difference between endossed and endorsed

is that endossed is past tense of endoss while endorsed is past tense of endorse.

As an adjective endorsed is

flanked by endorses.

endossed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (endoss)

    • endoss

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
  • (obsolete) To inscribe; to depict on any surface.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:he […] Gave me a shield, in which he did endosse / His deare Redeemers badge upon the bosse […].

    • endorsed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (endorse)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) Flanked by endorses.

    • Usage notes

    Only a (pale) may be endorsed''. When other ''ordinaries'' are flanked by diminutive forms, the term ''cotissed is used.